Uh huh....just down the road they built three beta bridges, had people drive across, when the bridge went down they figured they better redo it.
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 1:46 PM, Tom Piwowar <[email protected]> wrote: > >Maybe we should have engineers build betas of bridges and stuff. > > They do. Much of this work is now done as a computer simulation, but > physical models are also constructed. Sometimes in minature and sometimes > a particular component at full or near full size. If you look carefully > at construction sites you will often find little bits of structure > constructed in an out of the way spot. > > I'm sure you know about wind tunnels. > > There is a huge pool of water at the David Taylor Lab, just north of DC, > that is used for testing ship designs. It has a wave machine that can > simulate storms at sea. > > The Corps of Engineers has a huge (but minature) physical model of the > Mississippi River, locks and all. > > Carnegie Mellon has a shaker table large enough to hold a house. They > build houses on it to test different ideas about resisting earthquakes. > > Your attitude toward quality and testing demonstrates why > non-professionals (people without solid engineering training) should not > be allowed near projects like these (Zune included). I think MS hires way > too many business and literature majors for technical work. Real > engineers just sadly shake their heads. > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > -- Make sure you support your local CarbonONset programs! ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
